This is an individual chapter of Theory of Constraints Handbook. The purpose of this chapter is to show how the TOC philosophy can be applied along with other process improvement tools like Lean and Six Sigma to solve health care problems of any system, and provide excellent health care to a large number of end customers, the patients. By carefully... more...

This is an individual chapter of Theory of Constraints Handbook. Most people are introduced to Theory of Constraints through reading âThe Goalâ (Goldratt 1984). A common question by readers after reading it is âHow can we replicate Alex Rogos achievements described in The Goal, in our organizationâ?... more...

This is an individual chapter of Theory of Constraints Handbook. This chapter examines the application of the Theory of Constraints (TOC) to production environments. We begin by developing the Drum-Buffer-Rope (DBR) system which emerges through the application of the five focusing steps of TOC to production environments. The basic elements of DBR are... more...

This is an individual chapter of Theory of Constraints Handbook. The purpose of this chapter is to share how successful adopters have put Critical Chain concepts into practice and achieved durable results. It is based on Realizationâs experience from more than 200 Enterprise-level implementations of Critical Chain (meaning that the... more...